Hooters Birthdays and Lesbian Baby Showers

Steve and I lead such odd, but highly satisfying, lives.

We discussed this fact on Sunday night after looking back at our weekend. It started on Friday night when Brian Dailey celebrated one of his many 30th birthdays at Hooters on Hollywood Boulevard. It's a great location with a view of Mann's Chinese theater, so if you ever visit LA it's a fun location because you're in the middle of all the action (heh... "Action".) This pic is of Steve and I with our favorite "Hooter" picture.

You have to love a big gay and lesbian (with one straight woman) party at Hooters because we ain't there for the jugs but we do have a good time playing around with the ladies. I think the waitresses love us because we tip well. And don't oogle. And we say, "Thank you." And dress nicely.

Anyway, the hotwings and chicken strips were lovely, the mozzarella sticks were nice, and the French fries were yummy. The nachos? Not so much. (I'd do some funny word play there, but it just seems like too much work.) They had Cheese Wiz type sauce with some mystery meat and beans. Not that we didn't devour them, they just weren't that great. Afterwards we felt fat, though that could have been the beer. So many calories...

Here is a picture of Brian getting a birthday Hokey Pokey dance from the waitresses. The other two women sitting around him were for another party containing a group of homo-thugs and lesbians. Who knew the Hooters was the new gay hangout? Once again, we have accidentally stumbled upon the pulse of America.

We then went out drinking and since Steve and I have been hermits we over did it. Saturday was a wash, but then Sunday we went to our friends, Lynn and Michelle's, baby shower; here is the happy couple now...
Lynn and Michelle have been together for a little bit longer than Steve and I, and they've been really great friends to us from the start. When Steve and I, along with friends Meghan and Molly (pictured here), did our major hike in Hawaii we even stayed at Michelle's family's house before heading into the jungle.

Anyway, the day was so amazing, filled with generous people who were all there to support Lynn and Michelle's chosen family. That's the thing I don't think a lot of the Christian Right people understand about queer families because they're so caught up in their fear or dogmatic beliefs. Queers have had to travel infinitely difficult paths to build our lives and create safe communities for ourselves where we can live together and have children. Anyone named Britney or Kevin can poke a hole and get preggers while drinking Redbull and eating sushi or Cheetos-- that's a display of love, huh? Or they can get drunk in Vegas, married, and then divorced in an hour. That's definitely a testament to the sanctity of the American Family.

But you know what? I would love to witness even one of these so-called Christians at an event like we attended on Sunday.

To see and feel all that love for these two women and their baby, as well as respecting that many of the other same-sex couples there were all parents as well, really filled the area with a sense of love, meaning, and purpose that no political rally can ever communicate. If there was ever a place where I saw the love of God in action, it was during this beautiful afternoon.

And there was drag queen bingo. Really. You straight people have so much to learn about hosting a proper baby shower.